Sites and Monuments Record · Ireland
Ringfort - rath
Paristown, County Westmeath, Ireland
The record
- Townland
- Paristown
- County
- Westmeath
- Country
- Ireland
- First-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Latest-edition OS map
- Not indicated
- Coordinates
- 53.64204, -7.00272
- SMR number
- WM009-025----
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 4 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1790 "Composite: Ireland." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
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The National Monuments Service's description
Situated on top of a ridge. An oval shaped area (approx. diam. 32m NW-SE; 17m NE-SW) enclosed by two banks of earth & stone with a shallow intervening fosse. The fosse is visible from SE-W-N. The outer bank is only visible from NW-NNE & from SE-SW. There is an entrance gap at SE.
Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien
Date of upload: 17 May 2017
Nearby in the register
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- House - indeterminate dateunder 1 mi
- Ringfort - rathunder 1 mi
- Hut siteunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.